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Once you’ve seen the pictures, it’s hard to get the image of the toxic yellow plume of mining waste that contaminated the Animas and San Juan rivers out of your mind. The spill occurred a year ago. It created numerous problems for businesses, farmers and residents downstream, including those on a part of the Navajo Nation. The Environmental Protection Agency admitted fault for causing the spill. Now, a year later, the yellow color is long gone. But is the water as safe to use as before the spill? Did the EPA pay for the damage? What is being done to prevent another spill of this magnitude?
Duane Chili Yazzie (Southwest Diné) – Shiprock Chapter President
LoRenzo Bates (Diné) – Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council
Dr. Paloma Beemer – associate professor of public health at the University of Arizona
Lenore Williams (Navajo) – Vice President of the Upper Fruitland Chapter
Break Music: Anasazi Sun (song) Injunuity (artist) Fight For Survival (album)
